The Neuro

Killam Seminar Series 2014-2015
Scheduling Calendar
 
 

Date Speaker Lecture Host
2014      

September 9, 2014

Daniel Colón-Ramos, PhD
Department of Cell Biology
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, CT

Synapse Location During Growth Depend on Glia Location 

Tim Kennedy
September 16, 2014
 
Anna Devor
Neurovascular Imaging Laboratory
University of California
Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Neurovascular Coupling Edith Hamel
September 23, 2014
 
Michael Fardeau
Professor Emeritus
Institut de Myologie
Unite de Morphologie Neuromusculaire
An History of Myology, from Erasistratos to Duchenne de Boulogne Bernard Brais
September 30, 2014
 
Francisco Quintana
Center for Neurologic Diseases
Brigham and Women's hospital
Harvard Medical School 
Regulation of CNS Inflammation Amit Bar-Or
October 7, 2014 Paul Bolam
Department of Pharmacology
MRC Anatomical Neuropharmacology unit
Oxford, UK
Dopamine Neurons, Synapses and Susceptibility in Parkinson's Disease Abbas Sadikot
October 14, 2014 Mike Crair
Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Program
Department of Neurobiology
Yale University School of Medicine
Activity-Dependent Neural Circuit Development Prior to Sensory Experience Ed Ruthazer
October 16, 2014   Melancon Lecture  
October 17, 2014   Beatty Lecture  

October 21, 2014
     

October 28, 2014
 

Gairdner Lecture

Gairdner Lecture

 

November 4, 2014
 

Sliman Bensmaia
Associate Professor
University of Chicago

Biological and Bionic Hands:  Natural Neural Coding and Artificial Perception

Christopher Pack
November 11, 2014
 

 

 
 

November 18, 2014

 

Society for Neuroscience
November 15-19, 2014
Washington, DC

 

 

November 25, 2014
 

 
   

December 2, 2014
 

Aziz Moqrich
Research Director
Aix-Marseille University and CNRS

Functional Significance of Primary Sensory Neurons Diversity: A Focus on Chronic Pain

Philippe Seguela

December 9, 2014

 


 

 

December 16, 2014
 
Aled Edwards, CEO of the Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC)

University of Toronto

Open Source Drug Discovery - A Way to Transform the Socioeconomic Impact of Universities  
2015      

January 13, 2015
 

Hideto Takahashi
Professor
Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montreal

Cell Adhesion System that Induces CNS Synapse Development

Tim Kennedy

January 20, 2015
 

Ingmar Blümcke
Professor of Neuropathology
University of Erlangen
Germany

Histopathological Consensus Classifications for Epilepsy and Tumors

Andrea Bernasconi

January 27, 2015
 

Bernardo S. Sabatini
Department of Neurobiology
Howard Hughes Medical School
Harvard Medical School

Unexpected Interactions in the Basal Ganglia

Barbara Jones

February 3, 2015
 

Claudia Lucchinetti
Professor Neurology
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN

 

Jack Antel

February 10, 2015
 
     

February 17, 2015
 


Gene Major
Senior Investigator
NIH
Bethesda, Maryland
 

 
Amit Bar-Or

February 24, 2015
 

Brigitte Kieffer, PhD
Scientific Director
Douglas Research Centre

 

Phil Barker

March 3, 2015
 
Diana Bautista
Associate Professor
Department of Molecular & Cell Biology
Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute
Berkeley, CA
 

Scratching beneath the surface of itch, touch and pain

Philippe Seguela

March 10, 2015
 
TBA TBA Stefano Stifani

March 17, 2015
 

David Zald
Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry
Vanderbilt University
Psychology Department


Neural and Neuropharmacological Substrates of Motivation and Salience


Robert Zatorre

March 24, 2015
 


 


 

 

March 31, 2015

Joshua Buckholtz
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Harvard University
Department of Psychology Northwest Building

Brain Circuit Mechanisms for Human Self-Control

Alain Dagher

April 7, 2015
 

Jonathan Smallwood
Department of Psychology
York Neuroimaging Centre
York University

Escaping the Here and Now:  A Neurocognitive Investigation of Self-Generated Thought

Neda Ladbon Bernasconi

April 14, 2015
 

Charleen Chu
Professor of Pathology
University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine

 

Edward Fon

April 21, 2015
 

Thomas Schwarz
Professor
F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Centre
Children's Hospital
Harvard University

 

Ted Fon

April 28, 2015
 

William Cafferty
Assistant Professor
Yale School of Medicine
Neurology

 

Alyson Fournier

May 5, 2015
 

Russell A. Poldrack
Professor of Psychology & Neurobiology
University of Texas at Austin
Imaging Research Centre

The Neural Basis of Behavioral Change

Lesley Fellows

May 7, 2015
 

Nancy Kanwisher

Dorothy J Killam lecture 

 

May 12, 2015
 

Christopher Deppmann
Assistant Professor of Biology
Department of Biology
University of Virginia

 

Phil Barker

May 19, 2015
 
 
Patrik Verstreken
K.U. Leuven
Department of Human Genetics VIB
Centre for the Biology of Disease

 

Hiroshi Tsuda
May 26, 2015 James Dowling
Assistant Professor
University of Toronto
George Karpati Lecture Ken Hastings

May 26, 2015
 
Canadian Association for Neuroscience
Vancouver, BC, Canada
May 24-27, 2015
 
 

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